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Florida News

Amazon to Build $120M Facility At NASA's Kennedy Space Center In Florida For Project Kuiper

..."Reported Amazon on Friday announced plans to “invest $120 million to build a satellite processing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, as the company prepares to launch the first satellites for its Project Kuiper internet network.”"

Source: ASEE First Bell

World 

Norway says Ivanti zero-day was used to hack govt IT systems

"The Norwegian National Security Authority (NSM) has confirmed that attackers used a zero-day vulnerability in Ivanti's Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) solution to breach a software platform used by 12 ministries in the country."

Source: BleepingComputer.com

Cybersecurity 

Evolving CISA Program helped Agencies Quickly Respond to Recent Cyber Incidents

"The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said on Friday that the “evolving” capabilities of its Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation — or CDM — program helped streamline responses to several recent cyber incidents affecting federal agencies, underscoring the importance of enhanced cyber coordination efforts across government."

Source: NextGov.com 

Energy

Remembering Lithium-Ion Battery Pioneer John Goodenough The Nobel laureate’s technology is used in electric cars and laptops

"Nobel Laureate John B. Goodenough, one of the inventors of the lithium-ion battery, died on 25 June at age 100. Goodenough, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, authored more than 800 technical papers during his career. He and his colleagues were recently granted a U.S. patent, shortly before his 100th birthday."

Source: IEEE Spectrum

Artificial Intelligence

White House notches AI agreement with top tech firms

"President Joe Biden will meet with the CEOs and presidents of seven of the largest AI tech companies Friday to mark a nonbinding agreement that will govern how artificial intelligence is developed and released to the public. Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI all agreed to a set of eight rules Friday, which include external testing of AI systems before their release, investing in cybersecurity protection for unreleased models and using a watermarking system for AI-generated content. The list of attendees includes Microsoft President Brad Smith, Meta President Nick Clegg, and Google President Kent Walker."

Source: Politico

Renewology

Can Europe Be Carbon Neutral Through Sequestration? A new study suggests a massive scale-up of the tech would be needed

"The need for countries around the world to limit their greenhouse gas emissions is definite—but how to do it is less clear. Even with a hard push for the implementation of renewables, evidence suggests that we will need additional strategies to reduce our emissions."

Source: IEEE Spectrum

Technology

Students Develop Low-Cost Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired It uses computer vision, machine learning, and Google API

"Employing computer vision techniques, students from the Ramaiah Institute of Technology’s IEEE Computational Intelligence Society chapter in Bangalore, India, developed a device to assist people who are visually impaired. OurVision is a low-cost wearable that reads text out loud to users and helps them navigate their surroundings. The goal is to help blind people advance their educational and career opportunities, as well as to help them live independently. The technology used in the device includes optical character recognition, machine learning, and Google application programming interfaces."

Source: IEEE Spectrum

Business

Google Workspace Log Extraction

"In parts 1 and 2 of our series on cloud log extraction, we discussed how to retrieve high-value logs from Google Cloud and AWS. In this post, we are going to take a look at Google Workspace. Google Workspace is unique compared to the other platforms we have discussed as it is a software-as-a-service platform versus the platform-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-a-service model provided by Google Cloud and AWS. Google Workspace can be thought of as Google’s counterpart to Microsoft 365, providing email services and other productivity tools to businesses."

Source: SANS

Higher Education

Article from 1974 - What Should We Teach In An Introductory Programming Course?

"An introductory course (and its successor) in programming should be concerned with three aspects of programming: 1. How to solve problems, 2. How to describe an algorithmic solution to a problem, 3. How to verify that an algorithm is correct. I should like to discuss mainly the first two aspects. The third is just as important, but if the first two are carried out in a systematic fashion, the third is much easier than commonly supposed. (Note that the third step is not “debugging,” because the word “debugging” conveys the impression that errors are alright—that they are a natural phenomenon which, like flies in a house, must be found and swatted. If “debugging” was called “getting rid of one's mistakes,” I'm sure most programmers would change their attitude and work harder at producing a correct program initially.)"

Source: ACM

Commentary

Internet referral programs are in urgent need of reform.

"On July 4, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana barred certain government agencies from working with social media companies for “the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech.”"

Source: Brookings